There are cases where untruthfulness is shirking one's duty, just as there are cases where truthfulness is mean or brutal.
For nowhere is untruthfulness so rampant and so shameless as in contemporary journalism.
But in more public matters the prevalence of untruthfulness is much more shocking.
Untruthfulness is the great ally of all forms of dishonesty; and strict scruples against lying make it much easier to clear them from the soul.
But there are also many cases in which untruthfulness and bad faith are looked upon with indifference, or even held laudable or obligatory.
The natives of Car Nicobar are not only very honest,[21] but "the accusation of untruthfulness brings them up in arms immediately.
Untruthfulness is said to be "a national characteristic" of the tribes inhabiting the region of Lake Nyassa.
The fear of punishment leads directly to untruthfulness and deception; parents who rely upon affection and good-will to assure the right conduct of their children get better results than those who terrorize them.
In her case the untruthfulness of childhood has not been remedied.
Even more important than the right kind of treatment for untruthfulness is the necessity for an atmosphere in which the spirit of truthfulness is all-pervading.
So often has that charge of untruthfulness been repeated, and so generally is it now accepted, that it seems almost Quixotic to try to fight against it.
Miss McMurtry had talked to her many times and always she had promised never to offend again and yet a habit of untruthfulness is not so easily conquered.
And Betty laughed gayly at the untruthfulness of this picture of herself.
Persons who believe that the untruthfulness of the Chinese (presuming that it exists) is due to their "heathenism" and that truth is a typically or exclusively Christian virtue may have some difficulty in proving the justice of their view.
This question of Chinese untruthfulness we have already considered,[273] and a few words are all that is necessary here.
Such persons will doubtless in any case continue to hold that the Chinese as a people are untruthful, and that whether or not the untruthfulness is a legacy left them by Confucius it is a vice which only Christianity can extirpate.
The year 1813 was the year of the Tanyrallt Mystery; an affair fruitful of inaccuracies of statement, some of which must be ascribed to untruthfulness on Shelley's part, though some of them may have been altogether due to delusion.
In proportion as the final verdict shall acquit him of untruthfulness it must declare him to have suffered from insanity.
Mental influences: Contagion from long continueduntruthfulness at home.
Her statements, too, were probably not altogether truthful, but frequently a reason for theuntruthfulness was made out.
A period of extensive untruthfulness and deception occurred before she left home.
She has remained steady and trustworthy, and shows no tendency whatever towards untruthfulness or evasiveness.
His tendency to untruthfulness stood out everywhere.
About three years after our first study of Annie, the father himself brought a complaint against her of untruthfulness and general unreliability.
It may be noticed too that even scientific men continually make use of it amongst themselves, and in their intercourse with others, and this without any charge of untruthfulness being brought against them.
Does not the common sense of mankind declare that the mode of proceeding which we have described is the only proper one, and that there is no real untruthfulness in it?
Simulation uses external deeds or things, and thus there is an accidental difference between lying and simulation, the one being untruthfulness in word and the other untruthfulness in deed (see 1678 sqq.
A special form of untruthfulness is simulation or pretence, which uses external deeds or things to signify the contrary of what one thinks or intends internally.
First he will find that untruthfulness causes astonishment, and a repetition of it, scorn and lack of confidence.
It is to be cured by ridicule, a dangerous method of education in general, but useful when one observes that this type of untruthfulness threatens to develop into real untrustworthiness.
I formerly divided untruthfulness into unwilling, shameless, and imaginative lies.
Untruthfulness belongs to the faults which the teacher thinks he must most frequently punish with blows.
December, 1914, confirms the untruthfulnessof the German allegations.
Naturally, the desire to obtain foreign newspapers became keener than ever in Belgium as the untruthfulness of the censored journals became more apparent.
Treachery and untruthfulnessare the chief weapons employed by our enemies.
Be this as it may, there was no difficulty in finding unchallengeable evidence of the untruthfulness of the statements attributed to Colonel Crealock in the above letter.
Nobody was fonder of lying, or lied oftener, out of satire or humour, than Leibgeber and no one more utterly detested serious untruthfulness than he.
The untruthfulness and unscrupulous brutality with which the English Cabinet carries on the war place it far below the level of Muscovite morality.
The charge ofuntruthfulness I dismissed as being both petty and absurd.
Whatever else might be said, a reputation for slovenliness anduntruthfulness would be scarcely likely to help me in my career.
Living at the cost of others is not only dishonesty, but it is untruthfulness in deed, as lying is in word.
Moreover, the distrust so engendered may lead to anticipatory deception on their side, and so the circle of distrust and untruthfulness spreads until it is met somewhere by determined truth that demands truth in return.
The kind of untruthfulness which may be called untruthfulness by inadequacy causes many strong and earnest minds to keep aloof from general society, which seems to them insipid.
Because it is my law," he answered, "to flee and to hate the everlasting untruthfulness of men in their connections with each other.
And again, the term was long synonymous withuntruthfulness and deceit.
He is convinced that real untruthfulness is no commoner among such patients than it is among healthy persons.
Mrs. Godwin's jealous fussiness gave Godwin abundant opportunities for the exercise of philosophy, and to the inherent untruthfulness of her manner and speech he remained strangely and philosophically blind.
